Contemporary era · 1968

Tet Offensive

The Tet Offensive was both a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC) launched a surprise attack on 30 and 31 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies, targeting military and civilian command and…

When: 30 Jan 1968 – 23 Sept 1968
Where: South Vietnam
Era: Contemporary

Topics

Vietnam War1955 – 1975 Vietnam965 CE – today

People

Võ Nguyên Giáp1911 – 2013Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)

Before and after

My Lai massacre1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons1968 Show on timeline

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